Dylan Ponsford

I am a second-year PhD student at april lab supervised by Antonio Vergari (primary) and Henry Gouk (secondary). (april lab \(\subset\) Institute for Machine Learning \(\subset\) School of Informatics \(\subset\) University of Edinburgh).

My research focuses on efficient and reliable probabilistic methods, with a particular focus on a class of (tractable!) models called probabilistic circuits. Recently, I have also developed an interest in applications to tabular data. You can explore the intersection of these interests in my recent work A Sobering Look at Tabular Data Generation via Probabilistic Circuits.

Previously, I did my MSc in AI also at Edinburgh, concluding with my master’s dissertation “Quantizing Tractable Probabilistic Models” (also supervised by Antonio!). Before that (an increasingly long time ago), I did my BSc in mathematics at the University of Warwick, with a year abroad at Technische Universität Berlin in Germany.